2. Leonidas

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Spartanórum rex, Leónidas,
in Thermópylis,
se trecentósque eos,
quos edúxerat e Sparta,
oppósuit hóstibus,
militésque ita allocútus est,
"Pugnáte ánimo forti,
Lacedaemónii!
Hódie
apud ínferos fortásse cenábimus."
E quibus unus,
cum hostis,
in collóquio glórians,
dixísset,
"Solem,
prae
iaculórum sagittarúmque
multitúdine,
non vidébitis" —
"In umbra," inquit,
"pugnábimus."

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TEXT SOURCE: First Easy Latin Reading Book - Anecdotes, by Edmund Fowle (1877). Vocabulary Lists in back of book.

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